Survey Time!

There are a couple of survey's going on that you guys need to be aware of... and more importantly... to take a few moments to go and fill out.

The first one I want to mention is a salary survey from VersionOne and ASPE. IT Salary surveys are nothing new but none of them so far have really focused on the specifics of the agile community. This is a great opportunity to see how our industry in doing and how we compare to other IT professionals.  In reality... I am really just hoping that all you guys make a bunch more money than me and I can use your data to make a solid case that I am underpaid ;-)

Okay, really... let's put our data together and see where we stand, and hey, and if a few of us are able to get a raise out of the deal... all the better! You can click here to take the salary survey... http://tinyurl.com/agilesalary

The second survey I want to mention is being conducted by a fellow blogger Jurgen Appelo over at NOOP.nl. Jurgen has been prolific lately with top 100 blog lists and top 50 twitter lists. When not compliling top 100 lists, Jurgen writes on agile management and is prone to go on long rants about complex adapative systems and other nonsense (just kidding Jurgen!). Every time I get mentioned on one of Jurgen's lists, I get a 10% bump in traffic and usually pick up a few subscribers so I guess I owe him, huh?

Jurgen isn't satisfied with the other agile surveys and has a few questions of his own he'd like answered. He is interested in what practices are most closely associated with agile... what practices are most important... and what practices are most commonly applied. These are great questions so please take a moment to head over to NOOP.nl and read Jurgen's post... follow the directions... and complete the survey.

Here is a link to Jurgen's post with the survey information http://www.noop.nl/2009/04/the-big-agile-practices-survey.html

Thanks for supporting the agile community and for taking a few moments out of your day to help a couple of worthy causes!

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Announcing the 3rd Annual "State of Agile Development' Survey

It is that time of year again - Version One has launched it's 3rd Annual 'State of Agile Development' Survey.

This is not a vendor or tool survey, it is meant as a global survey on the general state of Agile development (hence the catchy name). Last year the survey received 1,700 completed surveys from 71 countries. The results from past surveys have been written up in publications ranging from CIO Magazine to InfoQ to SDTimes and the Agile Journal. The results are also e-mailed directly to participants.

Learn more and take the survey HERE

It should take 5 - 10 minutes to complete and your participation is greatly appreciated.

What do you get for participating? By contributing and sharing data anonymously, you will help create the largest data collection on the value of Agile development practices and have direct access to the aggregated results. VersionOne is also giving away participation prizes consisting of 3 Amazon.com gift certificates totaling $1,250.00.

Thank you in advance for your participation.

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